Quote:At the risk of this getting into the weeds...  You can't assume the clot footballs are the control group because they weren't in a controlled environment.  You have two sets of footballs that had two different psi results.  Something was different in either the process of where and how they were inflated or something happened to them along the way before the time they were tested or both.  That doesn't necessarily mean something was done to one set on purpose although I get that it is highly likely that something was done on purpose.  It still doesn't mean that anything was done illegally.  So there is no way, in my opinion, to convict or punish the Patriots for these results.  Nothing will likely come of this until the offseason when the process of preparing the game balls will be reviewed by the league and/or the rules will be rewritten and worded better.

 

Like I said in another post, if the Patriots figured out a way to get the balls to a certain more desirable psi during the game but followed the rules to the letter regarding inflating them and didn't manually deflate them... good for them.

 

 

Sorry, but the clots balls were inflated to the proper psi and maintained that psi.  They are the control group...

 

Illegal, on the other hand is a very good word choice...  The patriot way is to go right up to the line of what constitutes legality.  Face it, the control group was there.  The clots balls maintained the psi...  The pat balls didn't.  Clearly something was done to change the results in the "variable".  That something was done by the patriot organization.

 

It's actually very simple.  

 

1 set of balls maintained psi.  1 set deflated.  The balls were not defective...  Therefore, someone within the organization tampered with the balls.  

 

Case closed.

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